Earlier this year, after half a century of searching by many talented mathematicians, an amateur finally discovered an aperiodic monotile.

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Math Mutation 288:  One Stone To Rule Them All

The surprisingly simple GRIM test, and how it helped to debunk the famous Cornell Pizza Studies.

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Math Mutation 287:  The Grim State of Modern Pizza

I discuss my experiences translating "The Revolution of Promises" by Nelson Rodriguez Chartrand.

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Math Mutation 286:  Adventures In Translation

Have you used the logical method known as "proof by intimidation"?

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Math Mutation 285:  Believe My Proofs Or Else

We discuss Buckminster Fuller's focus on triangles in his Synergetics.

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Math Mutation 284:  Don't Square Numbers, Triangle Them

If we deny the existence of infinity, does math still work?

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Math Mutation 283:  Escape From Infinity

In memory of Maurice Karnaugh, we discuss the "K-Map", a nice shortcut for desinging electronic circuits.

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Math Mutation 282:  The Man With The Map

Discussing the final decade of Blaise Pascal's life, when he decided math and physics were unworthy of study.   

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Math Mutation 281:  Pascal vs Mathematics

Thanks to social media, Rubik's Cube is popular again.

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Math Mutation 280:  Rubik's Resurgence

We discuss the famous Two Envelopes paradox, along with an unconventional solution.

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Math Mutation 279:  Improbable Envelopes

Alan Turing's adventures in bicycle repair.

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Math Mutation 278:  Bicycle Repair Man

Should you aim for a maximally "scalable" profession in order to become rich?

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Math Mutation 277:  Bad Career Advice

We discuss Nassim Taleb's "Ludic Fallacy", the incorrect belief that simple mathematical models accurately predict the real world.

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Math Mutation 276:  Don't Believe the Math

What does it take to create fair dice for an online game?

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Math Mutation 275:  Demanding Fair Dice

A strange self-righting 3-D shape was only discovered in the 21st century.

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Math Mutation 274:  The Gomboc

Why are literary and visual labyrinths from ancient and medieval times so different?

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Math Mutation 273:  A Maze Of Labyrinths

How Jackie Mason derived jokes from Talmudic logic.

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Math Mutation 272:  The Mathematics of Jackie Mason

Think about the math before getting tested for a rare disease.

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Math Mutation 271:  Too Much Testing

Why are screw threads always right-handed?   Or are they?

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Math Mutation 270:  Which Way To Turn

We discuss a strange mathematical experiment conducted in a World War II prison camp.

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